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Definition of Outskirt
1. Noun. A part of the city far removed from the center. "They built a factory on the outskirts of the city"
Definition of Outskirt
1. n. A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town.
Definition of Outskirt
1. Noun. a more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outskirt
1. an outlying area [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outskirt
Literary usage of Outskirt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... outskirt, n. edge; spec, suburb, purlieu (archaic);—all much used in pi. form.
... outskirt ..."
2. A Bird's-eye View of Our Civil War by Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1897)
"EARLY outskirt OPERATIONS. THE briefest mention of the principal outskirt operations
must suffice. Hatteras Inlet had become a place of much resort for ..."
3. The Emir of Bokhara and His Country: Journeys and Studies in Bokhara (with a by Ole Olufsen (1911)
"In the knife bazar there From the Jews' quarter on the outskirt of Bokhara, near
the town-wall. ... outskirt ..."
4. Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (English) by Helena Swan (1904)
"Along the outskirt bushes of the wood : Fly forward, Whitethroat, searching still
for me If thou but pipe I will a pilgrim be, Some leafy shrine of utter ..."
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